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Cardiac care for athletes

Cardiovascular care for athletes presents various complexities. While athletic training and regular exercise generally bolster cardiovascular wellness, they may also increase the risk of sudden cardiac arrest.

How one smart interface saves time and leads to smoother processes

1/9/23

More efficient service management for imaging systems at St. Jansdal

Save 30 minutes—a thousand times over

25/4/23

Maintenance? Repair? Incident? The more medical devices that are in use, the more important it is to have all insights available in a single system - teamplay Fleet Connect

State-of-the-art cardiology in rural Portugal

Learn how a provincial hospital turned into one of Portugal's most renowned centers for heart disease. And why distance doesn’t matter.

Cardiac health: In great shape but close to death

"I was extremely lucky," says Frank – and it's not a visit to the casino that he's referring to. It’s a life-saving check-up.

Imaging in a heartbeat

At a leading hospital in Lucerne, Switzerland, radiology specialists are virtually connected with technologists and patients within a network of affiliated hospitals. Thanks to the new software for remote scanning assistance, knowledge transfer is fast, easy, and cost-effective. An additional benefit is that patients have a shorter waiting time for their scan appointments – which has turned out to be especially useful in these times of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Patient experience in the times of COVID-19

In this Innovation Talk, Dr. Christina Triantafyllou looks at patient experience during the pandemic from three different angles: patient perspective, the view of medical personnel, and the role of digital technology in healthcare.

Patient experience

Bringing innovation to the patient pathway

What shapes the patient experience today and how the decision-making processes behind treatments might be different and more complex than we envisioned in the past. In this Innovation Talk, Isabel Nieto Alvarez will take you on a journey of transforming the patient care pathway and point out how patient experience will evolve in the future.

Patient experience

Retired X-ray systems brought back into operation during the pandemic

22/2/21

Good teamwork and high system quality enabled Karolinska University Hospital and Siemens Healthineers to bring four decades-old mobile X-ray systems back into operation to provide lung imaging during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Gerhard Simon, MD, a radiologist and nuclear medicine physician, engaged a radiology technologist from Siemens Healthineers.

Support at the right moment

16/2/21

In response to the pressures of finding sufficient radiology technologists, Garmisch-Partenkirchen Hospital, Germany, engaged a technologist from Siemens Healthineers in early March 2020. Gerhard Simon, MD, a radiologist and nuclear medicine physician, believes that this was absolutely the right decision, especially given the COVID-19 pandemic. However, he says that the long-term solution has to be about encouraging more young people to become technologists.

The future of robotics in healthcare

27/1/21

When we think of robots assisting in surgical procedures, it still sounds quite futuristic. But to what extent does this remain science fiction and what is today’s reality? Listen to a pioneer in telerobotic interventions, Tejas Patel Chairman and Chief Interventional Cardiologist at Apex Heart Institute in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

Cover picture on how to manage caregiver stress and trauma in the COVID-19 era.

How to manage the impact of caregiver stress and trauma in the COVID-19 era?

A three-part strategy can be the solution to reduce negative consequences for healthcare professionals, patient care, patient experience and outcomes.

Achieving operational excellence

John Halamka explains the influence of a data-driven approach in precision medicine.

John D. Halamka on Expanding precision medicine

How will we experience precision medicine in the future? John Halamka gives an outlook on a new 360° understanding of patients.

Innovating personalized care

Identifying and implementing standardized processes reduces unwarranted variation, expands precision medicine, while increasing value.

Reducing Unwarranted Variation: Increasing the Value of Care

Expanding precision medicine calls for reducing unwarranted variation. This has been on the radar of providers, payers, and policymakers for over 40 years. The Economist Intelligence Unit summarized recent literature to find out if identifying and implementing processes to reduce this variation leads to increased value of care.